iOS 5 jailbroken in less than 24 hours

Last night @musclenerd posted a tweet saying that iOS 5 has indeed been jailbroken using the limera1n exploit. In his tweet he posted a picture of an iPod touch 4 Springboard with the Cydia icon placed nicely on it.

The full jailbreak story after the break!

The Apple keynote ended less than 24 hours ago, and the iOS 5 beta dropped to developers in even less time and the devs have already managed to jailbreak the firmware. According to @musclenerd, Cydia runs smoothly. This, however, is a tethered jailbreak and there is no word on when the tool will be released. So, if you are already jailbroken on a previous firmware, stay there, do not upgrade to iOS 5 beta 1 if you like your current jailbreak.

What do you all think of this? The jailbreak came quick, but do you think Apple will fill the hole in a new beta of iOS 5? Let us know in the comments.

Reader comments

iOS 5 jailbroken in less than 24 hours

As Vegasato said below, this will always be possible on any device that can be jailbroken now, no matter what iOS it's running. The jailbreak is through a bootrom exploit, which CANNOT be patched. The only thing they have to do is rewrite the software to accommodate the new kernal. That's it.
If iPhone 4s could run iOS 19, it could be jailbroken.

Ok, but why? I used to wait anxiously for a jailbreak with each software upgrade, with personal hotspot, didn't see the need although I did miss notifications. With iOS 5 really what is the point? Who f'n cares.

Quick reply is and will continue to be the main reason I jailbreak. Until you can easily reply to a message from within an app that isn't messages I refuse to have stock firmware. Plus some of the other little things are nice too.

The point for me is quick reply with TLert, and e Mail reply. Also MyWi and My3g are reasons to still jailbreak. I tether for free everyday with my MacBook Air. Also FaceTime with the wife over 3G as well.

I'm just ready to have it on my iPhone 4. It's going to feel good to get iOS 5. Even though I know Apple is going to keep a few goodies up their sleeves for the iPhone 5 in iOS 5.
Jailbreaking for the win. ;-)

WHY do these guys say "hey, we already jailbroke iOS5" before its even out? Now Apple can look into the OS and try to fix it. Why wouldn't they wait till its released and then say "HEY WE JAIL BROKE IT" smh

In the article, it says it used the same exploit that is already being used for the current jailbreak. If apple did not patch it between iOS 4 and now iOS5, maybe they cannot find it? They already patched iOn1c's untethered jailbreak, so this would be only a tethered one, until they find another hole.